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on  the  Occasion  of  the 
50th  anniversary  of  Christ 
Church  Parish 
Unionville,  Conn. 


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Christ  Church  Parish 

UNIONVILLE,  CONN. 
June  17,  1896 


BY 

The  Rev.   ALLEN   E.   Beeman 


HARTFORD,  CONN. 

Press  of  The  Case,  LocUwood  &  Brainard  Company 

1896 


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^oH  Anniversary 

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Christ  Church  Parish 

UNIONVILLE,  CONN. 
June  17,  1896 


BY 

The  Rev.   ALLEN  E.   Beeman 


HARTFORD,  CONN. 

Press  of  The  Case,  Lockwood  &  Brainard  Company 

1896 


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HISTORICAL  DISCOURSE. 


|IFTY  years  is  a  long  time  in  the  life  of  any 
community,  and  especially  in  so  busy  a  one  as 
this.  The  Tunxis  River  with  its  fine  water- 
power  early  attracted  the  notice  of  manufacturers,  and 
paper,  iron,  and  kindred  industries  found  here  a  fitting 
field  for  their  development.  And  in  the  coming  and 
going  of  families  and  individuals  —  so  marked  a  charac- 
teristic of  our  American  life  —  there  would  inevitably 
occur  here  in  this  place  the  ebb  and  flow  of  various  re- 
ligious preferences,  and  the  stability  of  none.  All  the 
religious  bodies  of  New  England  doubtless  then  had 
representatives  in  Unionville  long  before  the  year  1845  • 
the  year  when  the  organized  life  of  the  church  we  love 
began.  But  the  Standing  Order  was  that  builded  on  the 
Saybrook  platform,  and  in  accordance  with  that  form- 
ula, the  Congregational  meeting-house  was  the  common 
home  of  all  Christian  people  in  the  village.  The  day 
has  gone  by  when  it  would  be  either  correct  or  courte- 
ous to  deny  that  the  Gospel  was  preached  to  men  in  that 
church,  or  that  Christian  morality  and  sanctified  lives 
could  be  lived  under  teachings  somewhat  at  variance 
with  the  lessons  of  history  and  the  traditions  of  truth. 
But  with  all  these  blessings  —  and  you  know  I  would  not 
minimize  them  in  the  very  smallest  jot  or  tittle  —  there 
were  individuals  here  who  were  restless  and  homeless 
when  deprived  of  the  ministrations  of  that  church,  whose 
sublime  ritual  had  been  the  loved  friend  of  their  youth. 
From  various  climes  and  widely-sundered  states  they 
found  themselves  worshiping  together  in  unfamiliar 
scenes  and  uncongenial  surroundings.  What  wonder,  if 
like  Judah  at  Babylon,  they  now  and  then  came  together, 
and  their  familiar  talk  ran  on  the  beauties  of  that  fair 


temple  and  the  songs  of  Zion  that  the  hills  about  this 
valley  shut  so  far  away  from  them.  The  traditions  of 
this  town  nowhere  hint  at  any  unpleasantness  with  their 
brethren  of  a  different  faith  ;  but  where  diversities  of 
custom  and  alien  modes  of  thought  touch  man  in  the 
depths  of  his  being,  as  they  do  in  whatever  comes 
between  him  and  his  God,  here  ultimate  separation  is 
sure  to  arise.  The  occasional  ministrations  of  a  clergy- 
man from  some  neighboring  coign  of  vantage,  some 
happy  parish  priest,  preserved  to  these  scattered  sheep 
the  rites  of  their  church.  So  at  length  haply  some  one 
suggested  that  the  church  people  of  Unionville  take 
steps  to  organize  a  parish  —  the  unit  which  might  give 
"  a  local  habitation  and  a  name "  to  their  distracted 
minds  and  wandering  footsteps.  Of  course  it  would  be 
impossible  for  one  in  the  position  of  him  who  now 
addresses  you  to  state  that  a  belief  in,  and  veneration 
for,  the  church  of  many  ages,  the  church  of  Paul,  and 
Chrysostom,  and  Augustine,  just  as  much  as  the  same 
church  under  Cranmer  and  Laud  and  Benson,  —  ap- 
pealed to  the  convictions  and  guided  the  faith  of  your 
fathers  here  50  years  ago.  Perhaps  the  wave  of  emotion 
that  stirred  England  in  the  ten  years  after  1833,  and 
sped  in  ever-widening  circles  round  the  world,  had  not 
dropped  all  its  impetus  ere  it  fell  on  our  New  England 
shore  ;  for  while  the  year  1845  lost  Newman  to  England's 
church,  that  same  year  witnessed  the  baptism  with  the 
Name  of  the  Holy  Trinity  of  what  had  till  then  been 
Washington  College ;  and  may  we  not  to-day  say  that 
this  same  year  added  another  to  the  stars  of  that  stellar 
sea  whose  combined  brilliance  make  up  the  Diocese  of 
Connecticut?  Surely,  speaking  before  friends  and  on 
this  our  holiday,  we  may  thus  felicitate  ourselves.  And 
while  dwelling  on  the  causes  of  the  formation  of  a  sepa- 
rate religious  body  here,  perhaps  it  is  not  amiss  to  speak 
of  a  dimly  traditional  story  that  the  Episcopalian  attend- 
ants on  the  solitary  Divine  services  that  were  then  held 


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here  objected  to  directing  their  adoration  during  the 
singing  of  the  hymns  towards  the  choir  in  the  rear  of 
the  edifice,  and  to  the  awkward  rencontre  thus  necessita- 
ted between  the  Hymn-Book  of  Orthodoxy  and  the  An- 
thems of  Prelacy. 

But  be  this  as  it  may,  the  parish  of  Christ  Church, 
Union ville,  was  organized  in  the  year  A.D.  1845.  And 
in  sketching  briefly  its  history,  it  falls  naturally  into  two 
periods  of  25  years  each.  Services  began  to  be  held  here 
with  ever-increasing  regularity,  now  in  the  house  of  some 
faithful  member  of  the  infant  church  ;  for  some  time  in 
the  basement  of  the  Congregational  meeting-house ;  and 
at  length  in  the  upper  room  of  a  building  where  Tryon's 
Hall  now  stands.  Hartford  and  New  Britain  were  then, 
as  now,  the  centers  of  missionary  work  in  this  county. 
The  young  church  soon  began  to  call  on  the  clergy  of 
these  cities  for  occasional  services.  And  their  request 
met  a  ready  response.  First,  there  rises  before  us  the 
saintly  Dr.  Payne,  long  since  gone  to  his  rest  after  a  long- 
pastorate  in  that  foster-mother  of  patriots  and  theologi- 
ans —  St.  George's  church,  Schenectady.  Under  his  vig- 
orous, though  only  temporary  supervision,  this  young 
church  put  on  its  characteristics  of  independence  and 
hard  work  that  have  abided  with  it  to  this  day. 

Again,  men  saw  the  Ritual  of  our  Mother  take  on 
new  meaning  and  grandeur  as  read  in  the  reverent  ac- 
cents of  one  of  America's  greatest  masters  of  vocal  ex- 
pression. Of  the  people  here,  and  this  little  congrega- 
tion in  particular.  Dr.  Russell  is  wont  to  speak  with  ad- 
miration as  one  of  the  six  churches  which  were  under 
his  pastoral  supervision.  Verily,  he  made  St.  Marks, 
New  Britain,  a  pattern  of  charity  as  it  allowed  its  pastor 
thus  to  absent  himself  on  visits  to  his  little  diocese.  It  is 
devoutly  hoped  that  nothing  may  prevent  this  old  friend 
from  being  with  us  to-day. 

And  then  there  came  here  one  to  whom  the  city  of 
Hartford  owes  a  debt   of  gratitude   that   can  never  be 


canceled.  It  was  my  privilege  to  minister  for  a  time 
to  some  of  those  people  whose  whole  Christian  life 
had  been  moulded  by  the  Reverend  Father  Fisher,  as 
they  loved  to  call  him.  The  generation  of  labor  that 
he  gave  ungrudgingly  to  the  halt,  the  maimed,  the 
blind,  aye,  and  the  sinful  and  the  lost,  has  made  real 
that  proud  epitaph  of  the  builder  of  St.  Paul's  Cathedral, 
"  Si  monumentum  quaeris,  circumspice" ;  for  those  words 
are  written  in  the  hearts  of  men  and  women  living 
around  the  little  St.  Paul's  church  in  the  very  center  of 
Hartford.  Mr.  Fisher  came  here  frequently,  and  some 
of  those  yet  in  middle  life  speak  with  the  same  enthu- 
siasm of  his  visits  here,  that  marked  his  own  peculiar 
people  in  the  city.  To  his  resolute  counsels  doubtless 
the  parish  owes  the  stimulus  that  led  to  the  erection  of 
this  church.  You  can  imagine  the  magnitude  of  the 
undertaking  in  such  a  community  as  this.  With  slender 
means,  but  robust  faith,  the  enterprise  developed.  And 
as  men  already  saw  in  imagination  the  fair  towers  and 
pinnacles  rising  from  this  conspicuous  meeting  of  the 
ways,  they  looked  about  for  one  to  lead  them.  And  as 
they  did  so  the  first  period  of  the  parish  life  passes 
swiftly  into  the  second  twenty-five,  whose  completion  we 
to-day  accentuate.  In  1869,  there  came  here  as  rector  a 
man  singularly  well-adapted  by  nature  and  temperament 
to  act  as  a  pioneer  and  builder  in  the  larger  life  now 
opening  before  the  parish.  And  may  the  baleful  cloud 
that  now  overshadows  that  vigorous  and  untiring  person- 
ality be  speedily  rent  asunder,  and  the  clear  light  of 
reason  once  again  inhabit  her  wonted  abode  !  Edward 
R.  Brown  believed  in  work ;  and  his  well-directed  ener- 
gies speedily  gave  point  to  the  aspirations  of  his  flock, 
and  so  the  corner-stone  of  this  beautiful  Gothic  edifice 
was  laid  with  appropriate  ceremonial  on  Thursday,  the 
29th  day  of  June,  A.  D.  1871.  An  auspicious  natal  day! 
for  the  spirit  of  the  Fisherman  is  yet  visible  in  the  fiery 
zeal  and  abounding  love  that  have  since  characterized 


those  who  worship  here;  seeming  to  give  —  let  us  say  it 
reverently- — a  new  meaning  to  this  corner-stone  then 
laid,  "  Upon  this  rock  I  do  build  My  church."  The  zeal 
and  spiritual  life  of  the  parish  rose  and  spread  till  over- 
leaping village  barriers  it  carried  the  healing  waters  of 
salvation  on  the  north  to  Collinsville ;  and  to  the  south- 
ward dared  to  flow  unabashed  near  a  spot  where  the 
eagle-eyed  Bushnell  watched  over  the  heritage  left  by 
Thomas  Hooker  in  the  First  Ecclesiastical  Society  of 
Farmington.  In  both  these  towns  zealous  missions  were 
founded  by  Mr.  Brown ;  that  at  Collinsville  is  now  a 
flourishing  parish  ;  and  the  little  band  at  Farmington  has 
been  self-supporting  from  the  start.  All  honor  is  due 
this  gallant  soldier  of  the  cross  and  the  group  of  laymen 
with  him !  And  it  was  as  a  reward  to  their  faith  that  the 
Missionary  Society  voted  for  one  year  to  Christ  church, 
Unionville,  the  sum  of  $400  —  at  that  time  a  generous 
gift  — with  the  agreement  that  this  sum  should  be 
lessened  $100  a  year  till  it  was  repaid.  This  was 
punctually  done.  A  condition  was  made  that  from  that 
day  the  parish  was  to  take  care  of  itself ;  and  that  obliga- 
tion was  faithfully  observed  through  more  than  twenty 
years  until  an  unexampled  panic,  in  1893,  compelled  a 
request  for  temporary  help.  Mr.  Brown  remained  as 
rector  from  1869  until  October  13,  1878.  More  important 
than  the  building  of  the  church  was  the  tone  the  rector 
gave  to  the  religious  life  of  the  congregation.  The 
doctrines  of  the  church  were  taught  in  their  entirety. 
An  outsider  might  have  thought  that  when  a  parish  was 
organized  amid  such  surroundings  as  prevailed  here, 
there  would  have  been  some  toning  down  of  disagree- 
able, not  to  say  hated,  doctrines,  in  order  that  the  waver- 
ing incomers  might  be  propitiated,  and  the  way  into  the 
church  made  easier.  But  such  was  not  the  case  with  Mr. 
Brown.  His  training  and  convictions  correctly  led  him 
to  hide  nothing  of  the  truth ;  and  the  history  of  this 
parish  has  justified  his  course.     The   ritual  he  used  to 


begdn  with  was  the  one  which  it  commonly  takes  other 
parishes  years  to  reach.  And  with  this  care  for  decency 
and  order  in  the  externals  of  worship,  there  was  no 
lowering  nor  relaxing  of  energy  in  the  spiritual  work  of 
this  indefatigable  man.  At  no  time  before  or  since  has 
this  parish  been  so  thoroughly  at  one  with  its  pastor ;  for 
no  door  was  ever  passed  by  in  the  unceasing  round  of  his 
footsteps,  nor  the  abode  of  sickness  or  trouble  left  to  bear 
its  burden  alone.  His  superabundant  sympathy,  mani- 
fested to  those  without  as  well  as  within  his  church,  won 
many  to  worship  where  such  a  man  was,  and  so  he  led  to 
this  building  numbers  who  have  since  called  it  their 
home.  To  the  parish  the  sundering  of  this  pastoral  rela- 
tion was  a  severe  blow.  The  church  welcomed  to  the 
rectorship  in  October,  1878,  a  scholarly  and  able  man  — 
the  Reverend  William  Lusk.  Under  his  wise  leadership 
the  parish  prospered,  till  after  some  fifteen  months'  pas- 
torate, North  Haven  was  fortunate  enough  to  obtain 
his  services,  and  Mr.  Lusk  has  since  made  that  town  his 
home.  He  who  now  addresses  you  came  as  lay-reader  in 
February,  1880,  and  served  as  deacon  and  priest  till  April 
6,  1885.  Harmonious  and  pleasant  were  the  relations  of 
pastor  and  people  during  these  years  wherein  the  callow 
divinity  student  learned  the  difference  between  the 
theology  of  theory  and  the  theology  of  practice.  He 
still  thinks  he  could  have  learned  it  under  no  more 
agreeable  auspices,  nor  found  anywhere  more  indulgent 
critics.  Among  the  first  things  done  was  the  raising  of 
money  to  pay  off  the  small  indebtedness  still  remaining 
on  the  church,  in  order  that  it  might  be  consecrated. 
This  was  done,  so  that  on  the  12th  day  of  August,  1880, 
Christ  church,  Unionville,  was  duly  consecrated  and  set 
apart  from  "all  unhallowed  and  worldly  uses"  by  the 
present  bishop  of  the  diocese.  During  these  five  years, 
too,  the  grounds  about  the  building  were  carefully  graded 
and  a  substantial  granite  retaining  wall  was  built  around 
the  church   premises.     This  was  accomplished  through 


the  untiring  efforts  of  the  ladies'  society  —  named  here 
"The  Church  Workers."  Some  $850  paid  for  these  im- 
provements, and  since  then  all  debt  has  been  avoided. 
Through  the  skillful  engineering  of  Mr.  C.  L.  Mason,  the 
town  of  Farmington,  in  town  meeting,  kindly  voted  to 
the  church  the  land  on  the  south  side  between  the 
church's  property  and  the  cemetery  wall,  and  so  made 
possible  the  handsome  grounds  the  parish  now  holds. 
To  Mr.  Mason  is,  also,  due  the  graceful  sweep  of  the 
churchyard  and  its  symmetrical  grading.  This  work  was 
completed  in  the  summer  of  1881. 

The  Reverend  Richard  Searing  came  as  rector  early 
in  1886,  and  remained  with  this  parish  until  December, 

1889.  Under  his  capable  administration  the  life  of  the 
church  was  much  quickened,  and  especially  was  his  power 
felt  in  the  Sunday-school.  In  some  respects  this  parish 
has  had  peculiar  difficulties  in  keeping  its  hold  on  the 
young.  The  needs  of  higher  education  and  training  for 
mercantile  life  has  called  elsewhere  more  than  the  usual 
proportion  of  children.  And  then,  except  occasional 
visits  to  this  town,  the  demands  of  their  life-work  keep 
them  away :  and  so  the  church  perforce  loses  strength  by 
this  continual  outflow.  Our  consolation  is  that  other 
churches  gain  by  our  loss.  But  none  the  less  we  scan  the 
ever-fluctuating  muster-roll  with  perennial  hope  that  the 
course  of  our  American  life  may  in  this  respect  change, 
and  the  children  be  enabled  to  live  in  the  home  of  their 
fathers. 

The  Reverend  F.  B.  Whitcome  became  rector  in  June, 

1890,  and  remained  till  the  same  month  of  1891.  This 
period  saw  the  beginning  of  the  financial  troubles  of  the 
nation  that  culminated  in  the  panic  of  1 893 ;  and  the  in- 
dustries that  had  hitherto  flourished  here  felt,  as  soon  as 
any,  the  distress  of  the  commercial  pulse.  The  great 
iron  trade  that  has  brought  so  much  prosperity  to  the 
United  States  and  to  this  town  with  the  rest,  found  that 
there  was  scant  profit  in  carrying  iron  ore  from  the  West 


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to  New  England  and  then  re-shipping  the  finished  pro- 
duct back  to  the  West  again.  This  phenomenon  has 
caused  a  re-adjustment  of  wages  paid  to  many  a  house- 
hold, and  where  all  are  so  busy  as  they  are  here,  any 
lowering  of  income  hurts.  But  the  church  life  still  flowed 
smoothly  on,  and  this  year  passed  as  did  the  others. 

G.  W.  Griffeth  filled  the  pastorate  next,  coming  in 
August,  1 89 1,  and  remaining  until  May,  1893.  The  up- 
heaval in  the  industrial  world  at  this  time  was  a  direct 
cause  of  work  inaugurated  on  new  and  untried  lines  by 
Mr.  Griffeth ;  and  doubtless  his  aim  was  to  guide  the 
church  life  so  that  it  might  appeal  to  minds  here  that  had 
grown  lukewarm  toward  religion,  and  wished  the  church 
to  wrestle  with  the  problems  of  modern  society  to  a 
greater  extent  than  her  charter  permits.  Time  has 
proved  the  wisdom  or  the  crudeness  of  such  schemes; 
and  while  the  impracticable  has  passed  away,  the  good 
has  assimilated  with  older  and  well-seasoned  modes  of 
work,  and  no  unpleasantness  has  marred  the  Christian 
spirit  of  the  congregation. 

In  the  regular  rectorships  there  now  comes  a  break 
from  May,  1893,  to  July,  1895.  But  the  destinies  of  the 
parish  were  entrusted  on  each  Sunday  to  no  untried 
hands.  The  Rev.  Dr.  S.  J.  Horton  brought  to  the  weekly 
teaching  of  the  people  something  that  the  Church  here 
had  long  lacked.  With  signal  ability  and  unction  he 
uttered  the  stored  wisdom  of  well-nigh  four-score  years 
of  study  and  meditation;  and  while  no  mere  ''Laudator 
tcmporis  acti,''  he  still  recalled  to  the  restless  spirit  of  our 
age  the  settled  moral  convictions  and  high  Christian 
standard  that  have  made  our  American  civilization  what 
it  is  to-day.  Laboring  under  the  weight  of  many  years 
and  with  his  life-work  so  nearly  over,  he  gave  his  best 
efforts  to  his  duties  here  for  the  space  of  two  years.  And 
within  the  week  just  passed  you  have  been  called  to  stand 
by  his  grave-side  where  his  body  awaits  the  final  sum- 
mons.    Fisher,  Payne,  and  Horton  —  these  three  names 


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bridge  the  half-century  of  your  parish  life ;  and  they 
alone  of  those  who  have  ministered  here  have  passed  be- 
yond the  veil. 

In  July,  1895,  the  Reverend  Wolcott  W.  Ellsworth  be- 
gan his  rectorship  here,  and  of  his  unwearied  zeal  and 
conspicuous  success  you  yourselves  can  take  note  better 
than  can  I.  As  to  the  statistics  of  the  Church,  let  me  say 
in  passing,  that  there  have  been  376  baptisms,  49  mar- 
riages, 133  burials,  and  245  confirmations  since  the  par- 
ish registers  have  been  kept  here.  Doubtless  the  occa- 
sional acts  of  the  various  clergy  who  visited  Unionville 
are  set  down  in  their  own  Church  records. 

Having,  for  the  better  marking  of  the  years  of  parish 
life,  set  down  the  list  of  clergy  and  their  rectorships,  let 
us  turn  to  look  at  some  of  those  laymen  and  faithful 
women  who  "  have  borne  the  burden  and  heat  of  the 
day."  In  the  presence  of  one  whose  residence  here  has 
nearly  spanned  the  half-century  which  we  to-day  com- 
memorate, it  is  not  fitting  that  I  should  do  more  than 
bear  witness  to  the  unfailing  courtesy,  unswerving  fidelity 
to  his  rector,  and  faithfulness  to  the  best  interests  of  the 
parish  of  him  who  has  been  for  thirty  years  Senior  War- 
den of  this  Church.  One  of  the  movers  for  the  establish- 
ment of  Christ  Church,  Unionville,  he  brought  to  the 
fortunes  of  the  infant  congregation  the  prestige  of  an 
unsullied  business  honor  and  the  needed  experience  of  a 
man  of  affairs.  It  is  one  of  the  privileges  of  this  day 
that  he  can  be  here  to  witness  this  assemblage.  Of  him 
who  was  so  long  also  a  warden  of  this  Church,  but  has  a 
short  time  ago  gone  to  his  rest,  every  event  of  the  past 
forty  years  speaks  to  you.  Phineas  Bird  Goodwin,  in  ad- 
dition to  all  else  that  he  did  for  this  parish,  made  possible 
the  erection  of  this  church  edifice ;  for  his  word  guaran- 
teed the  Missionary  Society  that  their  loan  should  be 
repaid.  The  memory  of  his  honest,  kindly  face  and  in- 
nate gentlemanly  ways,  bespeaking  one  of  "  nature's 
noblemen,"   will   ever   abide   here,  and   his   unswerving 


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generosity,  so  long  continued  and  so  heartily  given,  testi- 
fies to  the  steadfastness  of  his  faith.  "  Verily,  he  being 
dead,  yet  speaketh."  And  then  there  was  Mrs.  Andrus 
—  who  took  the  rector  aside  one  day  near  the  close  of  her 
life  and  gave  a  closely-guarded  piece  of  gold  that  it  might 
be  built  into  this  wall  that  girts  the  church.  It  was  in- 
deed a  "widow's  mite."  Time  would  fail  me  should  I 
speak  of  Norman  Alills,  and  Daniel  Goodwin,  and  Mrs. 
Bird  Goodwin,  and  Mrs.  Carlos  Mason,  and  of  her  who 
was  the  wife  of  your  rector  when  this  church  was  built. 
Many  a  home  was  made  glad  by  her  winning  charity,  her 
sympathy  with  all  who  suffered.  I  know  that  in  a  sketch 
like  this  some  names  must  be  omitted,  but  the  scroll  on 
which  is  written  in  characters  of  light  their  long-contin- 
ued faithfulness  is  not  yet  full,  and  it  would  ill-become 
me  to  attempt  to  read  to  you  what  is  therein  set  down. 
Few  parishes,  I  believe,  have  made  so  small  change  in 
the  vestrymen  in  so  long  a  span  of  years  as  this  of  yours. 
Fifteen  and  twenty-five  years  have  seen  the  same  names 
on  that  board.  A  history  this  of  half  a  century  of  which 
you  have  cause  to  be  proud.  With  more  than  the  aver- 
age of  prosperity,  with  no  internal  divisions,  with  no  in- 
debtedness to  blunt  the  edge  of  your  endeavor,  to-day 
you  should  thank  God  and  take  courage.  And  not  the 
least  of  the  compliments  I  have  heard  about  this  Church 
was  made  by  a  Bishop  of  Connecticut,  "  Unionville  is  one 
of  my  parishes  that  never  makes  me  any  trouble." 

So,  with  the  past  secure,  you  await  the  future  with 
confidence  and  hope.  You  have  secured  a  fine  lot  for  a 
rectory,  and  soon,  I  doubt  not,  your  aspirations  will  be 
gratified  and  a  home  for  your  rector  will  complete  the 
roll  of  your  good  deeds.  And  may  the  prosperity  of  the 
parish  increase  ever  more  and  more  till  we  all  gather  for 
eternity  at  the  Jubilee  of  the  Lamb  of  God  in  our  hea- 
venly home. 


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PHOTOMOUNT 
PAMPHLET  BINDER 

Manufactured  ty 

GAYLORO  BROS.  Inc. 

Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Stockton,  Calif. 


